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TRAY FOR LAUNDRY MARKING PINS.

' APPLICRTION FILED MAR. 13. 1919.

1 3%,3 1 3. Patented Nov. 18, 1919.

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TRAY FOR LAUNDRY MARKING PINS.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. I73 I9I9.

322,3 3 Patented Nov. 18, 1919.

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ELITHA LAYMAN, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE NATIONAL-MARKING MACHINE C0,, OFCINCINNATI, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

TRAY FOR LAUNDRY-MARKING PINS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 18, 1919.

Application filed March 13, 1919. Serial No. 282,510.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELITHA F. LAYMAN, citizen of the United States, residing at Gincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Trays for Laundry-Marking Pins, of which the fol lowing is a specification.

One of the objects of my invention is the provision of a tray for holding pins used for laundry marking purposes, the said tray being constructed and arranged to prevent displacement of the pins in the event of the tray being upset, and this without interfering with the withdrawal of each pin when the same is subjected to pull or stress.

Another object of the invention is to provide a tray constructed specially for use in conjunction with the laundry marking pins disclosed in the contemporary application for patent filed January 18, 1919, Serial Number 271,907.

Another object of the invention is to provide a tray constructed so that when placed upon the top of another, they will so interlock as not to be easily disturbed or overthrown whcn being moved from one position or place to another.

To the attainment of the foregoing, the invention consists in the peculiar and advantageous tray hereinafter fully described and definitely claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, hereby made a part hereof:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the tray.

Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the tray constituting the best practical embodiment of my invention that I have as yet devised.

Fig. 3 is an enlarged fragmentary longitudinal vertical section taken in the plane indicated by the line 3-3 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is an enlarged fragmentary transverse vertical section taken on the line ti of Fig. 2.

It comprises a top plate 1 and corner legs 2; the said legs being of right angle form in cross-section, and being joined by side skirts 3 and end skirts f. The inner sides of the angular legs 2 are preferably, though not necessarily, slightly inclined from the vertical, as shown. Upon the top plate 1 and adj acent to the corners thereof are integral upstanding protuberances 5 which are designed to rest within the corner legs of a superimposed or stacked tray with a view to preventing lateral displacement of such tray without interfering with its being conveniently lifted from thetray beneath it.

The chief feature of my invention resides in the top or top plate 1, and I would therefore have it distinctly understood that it is within the purview of my invention to support the said top in the specific manner herein disclosed or in any other manner compatible with the purpose of this invention.

In furtherance of the present invention the top 1 is provided with a plurality of elongated apertures 6 that preferably eXtend in the direction of the length thereof. Each of the said apertures consists of an intermediate comparatively wide portion 7 and contracted end portions 8. The apertures are preferably arranged in transverse sets or series, Fig. 2, and between the sets or series are arranged transverse flanges 9 that depend from the top 1, Figs. 3 and 5, and are tapered downwardly, as shown.

A pin 10 of the safety pin type, Fig. 5, is intended to be placed in each of the apertures 6 after the manner shown, 2'. 6., with one head 11 lowermost and the upper head uppermost and so that the point side 12 of the pin will bear against one of the flanges 9 and be held against casual displacement by the resiliency of the wire of which the pin body is formed, the point of the pin being downward. In other words, the pin is securely held in the tray so that some force or stress is necessary to withdraw it from the tray. Each tray is provided with a pin in every aperture 6, and the pins belonging to a tray will be, provided with the number of the tray, as indicated in the drawings. The slot-s in the tray are so constructed as to compel the insertion of the pin with point downward, thus preventing injury to person of operator as often happens with trays constructed in which pin must be placed with point upward. The insertion of the pin with point downward also prevents an injury or dulling of point when pin is withdrawn from tray.

In the practical use of the trays, the trays and their correspondingly numbered quotas of pins are used in the marking room of a laundry plant, and the number of pins remaining in a tray after all the pieces in a bundle have been pinned, subtracted from the full pin quota of the tray will indicate the number of pieces in the bundle marked from that tray.

Having described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patcut, is:

1. A tray for holding laundry marking pins, comprising a top plate, and corner legs, of angular form in cross-section, depending theretrom; The top plate being provided on its upper side adjacent to its c )rners with upstanding protuberances, and at its underside with depending, downwardly-tapered transverse and spaced flanges, and being also provided with elongated apertures that are separated into transverse series by said flanges and are each made up of a comparatively wide intermediate portion and contracted end portions.

2. A tray for holding laundry marking devices, said tray having sets of apertures, each aperture having a widened intermediate portion and narrow end portions which lead into the widened portion, and depending flanges formed upon the lower side of the tray and arranged near the out-er ends of the narrow end portions 01: the apertures, said flanges being adapted to engage with inclined portions of the marking devices to shift them laterally.

3. A tray for holding laundry marking devices of safety-pin type, having apertures to receive the devices and also having at its underside and at the ends of the apertures a pendent portion transverse of the apertures and opposed to ends thereof to engage the pin portions of the devices.

4;. A tray for holding laundry marking devices, 01 safety-pin type, having elongated apertures with wide intermediate portions and contracted end portions and the end walls of which are diverged downwardly and also having depending portions the sides of which merge into said end walls.

A tray, said tray having a plurality of apertures, each aperture having a widened intermediate portion and narrow end portions which lead into the widened portion, and depending flanges arranged upon the lower side of the tray and disposed near the outer ends of the narrow end portions of the apertures; in combination with marking devices, each marking device comprising a pair of spaced heads, a shank connecting the heads, and a pin connected with one head and adapted to assume an inclined open position, said pin when open being adapted to engage with the adjacent depending flange of the tray and to shift the marking device laterally when it is moved longitudinally with relation to the tray.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ELITHA F. LAYMAN.

lVitnesses E. J. Anivmausrnn, E. C. SEIDEL. 

